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lonestarflight · 2 days

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Preparations for Apollo Transonic Abort flight (A-001), using Apollo boilerplate 12 spacecraft.

NASA ID: BP12-A-NOID

#A-001 #BP-12 #Little Joe II #launch escape system #LES #Rocket #NASA #Apollo Program #Abort Test #Boiler #1964 #construction #White Sands Missile Range #White Sands #New Mexico #my post

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coupleofdays · 9 months

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Margaret Hamilton, Director of the Apollo project Software Engineering Division, with a stack of papers containing the code to the Apollo Guidance Computer navigation software. The software that on this day, in 1969, guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they landed on the Moon.

#Margaret Hamilton #Apollo program #Apollo 11 #computer history #moon landing #I just love this picture

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todays-xkcd · 1 month

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If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder.

Moon Landing Mission Profiles [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Four diagrams of potential ways to achieve a moon landing shown.]

Lunar orbit rendezvous Spacecraft orbits Moon, drops lander Chosen by the Apollo program

Earth orbit rendezvous Large lander assembled in Earth orbit via several launches, travels to Moon Rejected for requiring multiple Saturn Vs per landing and potentially taking longer

Direct ascent Lander launched from Earth directly to Moon Rejected for requiring an unreasonably large rocket

Lunar Earth rendezvous Moon transits to rendezvous with spacecraft in low Earth orbit Rejected because I guess no one thought of it?!

#xkcd #xkcd 2909 #moon landing mission profiles #webcomics #astronomy #apollo program

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humanoidhistory · 6 months

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Apollo 16 rollout attracts a crowd at the Vehicle Assembly Building, 9 February 1972.

#apollo 16 #rocket #spaceship #history #photography #nasa #florida #apollo program #architecture #saturn v

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the-technicolor-whiscash · 4 months

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I love Apollo 8 because not only was it like a monumental human achievement to orbit the moon but also they took like 800 photos and they’re all absolutely stunning

What a beautiful world we share

#the whiscash administration #nasa #space program #apollo program

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amisonist · 9 months

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So considering that it’s the 54 anniversary of the moon landing I thought I’d share one of my favorite bits of trivia about the mission (along with a bit of a shitpost). So the first every liquid to be poured on the moon was actually whine as Buzz Aldrin took communion in the lunar module (the bread and whine were blessed a few days beforehand by a priest). Buzz wanted to broadcast the ceremony back to earth but decided not to at the request of Deke Slayton because of the controversy surrounding the reading of the book of genesis on Apollo 8.

Here’s where the shitposting comes in: According to Catholics (and other religions sects that believe in transubstantiation) believe that during communion the bread and whine literally becomes the body and blood of Christ. Which is why imho (despite not being religious in any way) it is perfectly accurate to say that Jesus Christ has landed on the moon

#shitpost #apollo program #space #moon landing #please do not take this seriously #Buzz Aldrin is a presbyterian iirc #it’s still funny tho imho #checkmate atheists

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astronotmovie · 4 months

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The view ain’t all that bad. Apollo 9 astronaut David Scott takes it all in in this epic photograph by crewmate Rusty Schweickart, March 1969. The 10-day mission commanded by James McDivitt saw the first crewed flight of the Lunar Module.

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todaysdocument · 4 months

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Rising Earth Greets Apollo VIII Astronauts

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information AgencySeries: Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life

This image is a color photograph of earth from lunar orbit. The surface of the moon appears on the right edge of the image. To the left, the earth appears to be floating in the blackness of space. Just over half of the earth is visible, the rest is in shadow.

#archivesgov #December 29 #1968 #Apollo 8 #apollo program #nasa #nasa photos #space #space exploration #moon #1960s

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roversrovers · 1 year

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does it ever drive you crazy

just how fast the night changes

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vieformidable · 2 months

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The picture of earth from space that we will rarely be shown

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adastra-sf · 4 days

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Happy Earth Day from the Moon

comic by zen pencils: "Neil Armstrong: A giant among men"

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- Neil Armstrong

#neil armstrong #earth from space #apollo program #quotes #earth day #comics

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lonestarflight · 8 months

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The original Moon landing sites

"NASA contracted to have 15 flight-worthy Saturn V rockets produced. Apollo 11 achieved the first landing with the sixth Saturn V, leaving nine for follow-on landings. The following landing sites were chosen for these missions, planned to occur at intervals of approximately four months through July 1972."

Note: I've updated this list with the original tentative planned launch dates.

G-type Mission

Apollo 11: (G) Mare Tranquillitatis, July 1969

H-type missions

Apollo 12: (H1) Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site), November 1969

Apollo 13: (H2) Fra Mauro Highlands, March 1970

Apollo 14: (H3) Littrow Crater, July 1970

Apollo 15: (H4) Censorinus Crater, November 1970

J-type missions, the extended stay missions

Apollo 16: (J1) Descartes Highlands or Tycho Crater (Surveyor 7 site), April 1971

Apollo 17: (J2) Marius Hills or Marius Hills volcanic domes, September 1971

Apollo 18: (J3) Copernicus crater or Schröter's Valley or Gassendi crater, February 1972, later July 1973